Jesse Benson

About Jesse Benson

AI and Machine Learning, ONNX, FPGA/ASIC, Device Drivers, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Web ServicesCuriosities: Space Exploration

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Jan 2011 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   AI Frameworks-Manager of an AI kernel development team for Maia AI chips. We focus on providing exceptional performance for gemm and gemm-like kernels (attention, moe, fused gemms).Manager of the host/device runtime team for the Maia AI chips, as part of the Azure AI frameworks team. We focus on inferencing and training AI models on CPUs, GPUs, and Maia chips.Developer on the AI Frameworks team, working on a variety of runtime features, AI kernel development, and performance optimization on GPUs.https://github.com/Microsoft/onnxruntimeAI Infrastructure and Inferencing-Developer on the Azure AI infrastructure team focused on hosting and serving models for efficient inferencing. Worked on the ONNX runtime and hardware acceleration using Azure End-to-End-Developer on a prototyping team within Azure that focused on driving improvement in the end-to-end Azure experience. Worked across technologies - AI, IoT, ARM devices, Kubernetes, Serverless, and others.Microsoft Azure Core Development - HyperScale Compute-Developer on a team working on a distributed systems platform that simplifies writing reliable cloud services and powers many Azure services. The platform solves many challenging distributed systems problems like deployment, management, rolling upgrade, failover, leader election, transactional replication, and consistent snapshots with an intuitive SDK.http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/20/announcing-azure-service-fabric-reducing-complexity-in-a-hyper-scale-worldMicrosoft Office Core Experience-Developer on core user interface platform for modern cross-platform Office applications (Windows, Android, iOS).

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  B.S., Computer Engineering, Computer Science

  2005 — 2009

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  M.S., Computer Engineering

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• C
• Algorithms
• Distributed Systems
• Software Development
• Python
• Linux
• Java
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• C#
• .net
• Multithreading
• Agile Application Development
• Xaml
• Databases
• Web Services
• Platform Development
• Computer Science
• Microsoft Azure
• C++
• Matlab
• Objective-C
• Perl